The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) was created by Green Integer and its publisher, Douglas Messerli, in 2000. The Project publishes regular anthologies of major international poets and actively archives biographies of poets and listings of their titles.

October 28, 2016

Tina Darragh

Tina
Darragh [USA]

1950

Tina Darragh was born and raised in Pittsburg
and grew up the suburban community of McDonald, Pennsylvania. She began writing
in 1968 and studied poetry in Washington, D.C. at Trinity University from
1970-1972. Between 1975 and 1976, she worked with Some of Us Press and at the
Mass Transit community bookstore and writing workshop. She now lives in Greenbelt,
Maryland with her husband Peter Inman. They have a son, Jack.

She started writing poetry in college
after taking a course with the poet Michael Lally, and has been included in
several L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E-based poetry anthologies including Ron Silliman’s In the American Tree (National Poetry
Foundation 1986) and Douglas Messerli’s From the Other Side of the Century (Sun
& Moon Press, 1994). Darragh makes her living as a librarian.

Darragh
has written many works of poetry, as while as an early play, My First Play (1974). Among her several
books of poetry are Living (with Tim
Dlugos) (1974), my handstomyself (1975); Pi in the Skye (1980),
on the cornertooff the corner (Sun and Moon Press, 1981), exposed faces (1984), and another play, Opposable Dumbs (2002).

Part of the poetic group surrounding
Washington, D.C.’s 1970s Folio Books meetings, she and her husband have
continued to play an important role in Washington’s poetic scene.